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Harvey Fierstein

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became

Harvey Fierstein

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Harvey Fierstein is saying that because his father grew up without a family and worked hard, he valued family above all else. This meant that even if they argued at home, they always stuck together when facing challenges from the outside world.

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